Productive?

Have you ever had that feeling where you know you did a lot that did but you still feel like you were lazy and unable to achieve anything? That is what today has been like for me. I have done my 4002 assignment that is due tomorrow afternoon and am a little past the halfway mark in my 4003 assignment that is due on Thursday (that is assuming I have done the thing I have done correctly) and I am about to do some laundry (the fourth load of this weekend) but I still feel like I haven't gotten anything accomplished. I have a memorandum due for a lab on Friday and haven't started it and I didn't do anything active today other than walk around the house like always, but really does that count, I don't think so. I also got a fair bit done in terms of stuff to cross of my list like my and Dave's opt-out forms and texting my brother about pictures I need of him and his girlfriend for the anniversary present I am making our parents, but still there was so much I wanted to get done this weekend and was unable to. I always seem to set these high goals for what I am going to do during the weekend and then when it comes I find myself sitting on my butt watching Dave and Justin play video games or just sitting around not working. I wonder why that is. I wish I could do something about that, other than be less lazy.

Tiring Day

Today Dave and I went to the gym at Carleton. It was my first time in there. I really enjoyed it. I got covered in sweat, it was glorious. We walked there from our house which took like half an hour and then we worked out for about 30 minutes, I worked on the eliptical the whole time while he did weight-lifting stuff, then we walked back home. I am proud of myself and am going to start going on a regular basis in the morning before classes start and on the weekends.

I am so tired thoguh, mostly from the walking, I wish I could just go to bed but I can't because of all the stupid homework. Stupid school, you ruin everything.

A Nice Day

I OWN GREY'S ANATOMY SEASON 2 UNCUT NOW!!
Dave bought it for me earlier today when we went to South Keys.
We are watching it now, we are on episode 3 now, the one where Christine (Sandra Oh) loses her baby and Meredith's mom comes into the hospital and everyone finds out about her illness(es).
We had a nice day today. We went to South Keys (as previously mentioned) and we spent time in Staples getting printer ink and notebooks for Dave and then we looked at the post-its (everyone knows how I love post-its). He bought me apple post-its, I didn't notice then when we were waiting for the bus after we had dinner at Kelsey's, it was really sweet. I love him. I love my apple post-its and my Grey's Anatomy Season 2 Uncut.

First Missed Class

I missed my first class today. It was a tutorial at 8:30 in the morning which goes for one hour and then has a three and a half hour break before my next class. Last night I told Dave I wasn't going to go but in my head I was still going to get up in the morning and go. I forgot to reset my alarm from the day before though. So when I woke up at about the time my class would have been starting, I worked on my assignments for the rest of my classes that are due on Friday. Although I haven't been getting very far with them. I think I have made a couple of mistakes with them and therefore I need to discuss them with some people at school.
I feel badly that I didn't go to the class. I wish I had now. Oh well, at least I got something accomplished.

GREY'S ANATOMY SEASON 3 STARTS TONIGHT! I CAN'T WAIT! 9pm ON CTV!

long days

Was it just me or did today just not seem to end! First there was the walk to school which for some reason seemed to take longer than usual, then the tutorial that lasted 5 minutes which of course lead to the 4 hours break in between classes. Then the 4.5 hours of class which just seemed so boring today for some reason. And now of course that it is time to start homework and preparing for tomorrow's classes I can't seem to find the time (or the energy) to do everything. Oh man I hate long days so much.

Fun Saturday

My Friday/Saturday was so much fun I thought I would share.
On Friday my parents brought me up a new TV, DVD player and VCR (all hand-me-downs, but better than what I had). I hooked them up yesterday and can't seem to get the VCR to record television, but I will figure it out later today.
Dinner yesterday consisted of Dave and I making pizza from scratch and Dan and Victoria making hash (potatoes, ground beef and a few veggies) and then the four of us sitting down (at an actual dinner table) to eat a civilized meal as a group. It was so grown up. Very enjoyable.
My parents had also brought up the game of Risk, the version for like 1975. I love that game. Dan, Victoria, Yan, Dave and myself played last night. Yan left to go make his dinner and Justin replaced him in the game, unfortunately the game was pretty much over for Yan by the time he left so there wasn't much for Justin to do. At one point in the game I had South America and almost Europe and then got wiped out of Europe completely and was left with three men in Argentina. I was pretty much gone. Fortunately everyone forgot about me way down there in quiet little Argentina. I would take a territory and my men every turn and eventually got to trade in a crap load of Risk cards and was able to take South America back along with Africa and one player (and therefore their Risk Cards - which I traded in to get a cool 45 men). When it was down to Dave and myself, we decided to stop the game realizing that it was just a matter of sitting there rolling dice while my army of like 100 men took the world in what would have needed 2 turns. The Pink Won! YAY!
Unfortunately today will not be as fun. I have to come back to the real world where I need to do a butt-load of homework. I have an assignment for my waste management course and one for my landfill design course as well. I also have to work on the project for my wastewater treatment course. There is also a bunch of laundry to be done by Dave and myself as well as some dishes that need to be cleaned. Oh well it was fun while it lasted.

Never Content

When summer was ending I just wanted the working to be done. I wanted to start something new and be able to create a new routine for myself and not have to go to work every day. Now that school is here I just want to be done it too. It is the second week of school and I am already wishing it would be over. This won't keep me from attending classes or doing well in them, it will just mean that the going to class part is a little more forced and it will take more effort to do my assignments and studying. It just sucks that no matter what one is doing, they always want something else. Myself included. When I am working I want to be doing school. When I am doing school I want to be working. Actually I would like some real time off. Some time to do something other than earn money or earn an education. To go somewhere, to travel, to see the world. I can't wait until I can do that worry free. Soon. Soon.

Opt-Out Form

A reminder to all Carleton students to fill out your opt-out form. You can get $167.97 back if you opt-out of both drug/accident insurance and dental (assuming that you have insurance in some other form, like your parents or something). The form can be picked up in the CUSA office on the fourth floor of the unicentre or you can fill it out on line at www.heath.ca/students. I'm doing mine real soon to make sure I don't forget.

That's One Big Book

Here you can see my textbooks for the fall term. You will notice starting on the right, a regular sized book followed by two more regular sized textbooks then the biggest book I have ever owned! It is 1800 pages and all about wastewater. Wastewater treatments, wastewater plants, wastewater constituents, wastewater! Oh the fun of engineering classes!

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Uncomfortable

Polysporin is a magic item. I hurt my leg a few days ago ... ok like Sunday but still ... and it has almost healed up. I can actually bend my knee without immense amounts of pain and discomfort. Unfortunately Polysporin is not for backpain. I slept wrong the other night and my back is all screwed up, first it was the middle of my back and now it is the bottomr right corner of my back. It hurts when I move too quickly and is so damn uncomfortable. If you have ever gone to school from 8:30 to near 5 and not been able to sit in one position for more than two seconds you will know somewhat of how I felt all freakin' day long. So bloody uncomfortable! It better fix itself soon or else I am going to get really mad with it and feed it drugs.

On a lighter note, I have been answering more and more questions in my classes and to make the situation even better ... actually getting them right! I hope to be gaining the respect of my classmates and professors by doing this. I know in the past couple of years when I have been asked questions I have never been able to answer them. I am hoping that my sudden understanding of the material can begin to remedy how stupid and lost (I think) I made myself look in the past. Whether or not it does that, I feel better that I am understanding the material moreso than before, perhaps that is because I am truly interested in it now unlike before. I really enjoy (waste)water treatment and everything else we are starting to learn moreso now. I am actually really enjoying my program now and not doubting as much whether or not I should be where I am. I hope that confidence sticks around for a while, it would be really useful come midterm and exam time.

I want to be healthy

On July 20th, 2006 I officially went back on the WW program. I did the program through the first term of third year and lost (and kept off) about 5 pounds in about 3 months. I was very disappointed with the turnout and stopped officially counting points. I always knew what I was eating and did not let my eating habits get out of hand but did not really count the points exactly. I did not gain any of the weight back but could not manage to lose anymore. Since I have started it this time, I am doing it 100% 'the way you are supposed to', in that I am combining it with real exercise on a regular basis instead of just pathetic now and then kind of exercising like before. I am very happy to say that I found out last week that I have officially lost ten pounds and managed to keep it off during my celebratory (controlled) week off. A whole ten pounds completely on my own without any needles or any of the other crazy things people do nowadays to lose weight.

I think the difference in my weight loss this time around is not so much the fact that I am doing it properly but really the reason behind my desire to lose weight. Before now my reasoning has always been to look better, like everyone else and all that jazz, this time around I am doing it because I want to be healthier. I want to live a long, healthy life and not need to worry about what diseases and ailments my weight is putting me at risk for. I want to be healthy more than I want to be thin - I feel that this is a much better motivator.

Fall Schedule

As I have now attended all of my courses (well the lectures not the labs or tutorials) I feel I should post my schedule so that the one person who might read this can do so.

As another school year begins, I find myself once again attempting to get ahead in my courses and be highly organized, more so than usual that is. I am however already starting to fail at this task. I have found myself drifting off during class, particularly ENVE 4003, air pollution control engineering. Only for about a minute or so, but long enough to get lost in such a technical course. It is not really one thing in particular about this course which makes me drift really a combination. Although I find the prof to be quite intelligent, more so than I ever think I will be, I find that he presents things in a manner that prohibits me from paying attention. The course material always seems to dry and boring when it is first presented and it isn't until after the class that I realize that it was actual quite interesting. It is odd really.

However, tomorrow I have my waste water course, ENVE 4005. I love that prof. She is so smart and though I think she may think of me as somewhat average when it comes to intelligence, I still admire her. She is basically where I want to be, except I don't want to teach. I guess that statement counteracts the one I had just made about being where I want to be but I know what I mean, which doesn't really help those of you who are reading this, huh. Sorry.

Dave and Justin sit upstairs playing video games. They have been trying to rent Mario Kart Double Dash since before Justin left to go home for the last half of the summer and just did but because of a deal going on at blockbuster they ended up getting DragonBallZ as well (yes you read that correctly) and have been playing that since I got home from school at about 6. As much as I love them both (in different ways of course) I must admit that they are geeks to the fullest extent. Oh well, in many ways I am too, what with the Pikmin game and computer games I love so much like Evil Genius. I suppose I will just have to embrace it. Ok, I have. :)